The dairy cattle industry in Puerto Rico lacks forages of high nutritive value. Maize silage is a high energy value crop and offers potential for use in the industry, but its low protein concentration is a major concern. ...

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important legume crop for small farmers worldwide. Weeds, through competition, cause yield reductions in common bean. Through genetic engineering, herbicide resistant lines ...

Lablab purpureus cv. Rongai and Mucuna pruriens (dwarf mucuna) are used as cover crops because of their beneficial contribution to physical and chemical soil properties. Two studies were conducted at the Agricultural ...

Forage soybean [Glycine max L. (Merr.)] is a crop with high potential for biomass production in the tropics, because, in a short period of time high quality hay can be produced for animal feed. However, no soybean cultivar ...

In Puerto Rico and the tropics in general, the major limitations affecting goat production are low reproductive efficiency, low nutritional value of forages and high incidence of gastrointestinal nematodes. For these ...